Commentaries

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: March 7, 2023 |

Canceling the Noise, Not by Bread Alone: Part XX

Since our last commentary in this series, several things have taken place. Let’s recall some of them: Jobs growth (based on January’s number) was much stronger than expected; inflationary pressures […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: March 1, 2023 |

The Anatomy of Underpinning Upheavals: Part I, China and the Balance of Power

Over the course of the next few weeks, we will be discussing the changes we are undergoing on a global scale as well as the forthcoming changes that are affecting […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: February 21, 2023 |

Market Plays in a Machiavellian Garden with Aristotelian Fences

When we read market headlines nowadays, the focus is on inflation and the direction of interest rates. The stickiness of prices, as demonstrated by the slowdown in the decline of […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: January 19, 2023 |

Canceling the Noise, Not by Bread Alone: Part XIX

Are the markets sending signals that run contrary to downbeat expectations? The latter includes IMF estimates for a global slowdown accompanied by recessions around the world, announced layoffs, lower earnings, accumulated […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: January 4, 2023 |

Lessons from 2022, and Initial Outlook for 2023: Canceling the Noise, Not by Bread Alone, Part XVIII

It is possible that last year marked a pivot in the markets’ trajectory that is being shaped by too much debt facilitated mainly by central banks, geopolitical risks, the deflating […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: December 31, 2022 |

The Inevitability of the Predictable Tragedy: A Conversation Among Matthew Arnold, Lord Acton, Canaletto, John Lukacs, and Angelo Roncalli

As I was approaching the gate for my end-of-year flight to Montevideo, I could clearly see ahead of me Matthew Arnold and Canaletto. What I couldn’t see was a painting […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: December 6, 2022 |

Canceling the Noise; Not by Bread Alone: Part XVII

What kind of conclusions could we draw by looking at the two images below? The first one relates the economy’s orders to the S&P 500. Orders could be considered a […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: November 29, 2022 |

Preparing for 2023: Will it be Atë’s Chaos or an Orderly (Dis)Equilibrium that seeks its Metis and the Logos?

Over the course of 25+ years, we came to believe that inflation was dead, there was no alternative to stocks, interest rates will stay low forever, tech companies’ stocks will […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: November 4, 2022 |

Canceling the Noise; Not by Bread Alone: Part XVI

Wednesday evening, I was reading an editorial praising Chairman’s Powell performance following the Fed’s decision to raise rates by another 75 bps. “One for the hawks, one for the doves,” […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: November 1, 2022 |

The Fifth Voyage of Gulliver: The Vortex of Instability

John E. Charalambakis Jonathan Swift’s marvelous work of Gulliver’s Travels is full of subliminal messages regarding geopolitics, statecraft, rationality/irrationality, and intrigues where trivial issues promoted by fanatical incompetent idiotic characters become the […]